Internationalizing JavaScript Applications

Presentation

Somewhere on the way to global success, you’ll have to get your software ready to support different human languages and cultures. For software written in JavaScript it’s not obvious how to start, as the ECMAScript standard defining the core of JavaScript offers little help. This talk surveys what the new ECMAScript Internationalization API and various libraries provide to make the task easier, and how you can best take advantage of them.

The Speaker(s)

Norbert Lindenberg is an internationalization consultant and the editor of the ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification, an Ecma International standard that defines a core set of internationalization capabilities for JavaScript. He studied computer science at Universität Karlsruhe and internationalization at Apple Computer, led internationalization projects at General Magic, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!, and has implemented the ECMAScript Internationalization API in Firefox for Mozilla.